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L. K. JOHNSON. SLUGPOR TYPE CONTAINING CHANNELS. No. 477,008. PatentedJune 14, 1892.

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LOUIS K. JOHNSON, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE ALDEN TYPE MACHINECOMPANY, OF NE'W YORK, N. Y.

SLUG FOR TYPE-CONTAINING CHANNELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 477,008, dated June 14,1892. Application filed May 2, 1891. Serial No. 391,402- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: panded. Fig. Sis atop View of the devicewhen Be it known that I, LOUIS K. JOHNSON, a in the conditionillustrated in Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a citizen of the United States, residingin the front elevation of thelower portion of a type city of Brooklyn,in the county of Kings and containing channel supported on a finger- 5State of New York, have invented certain new piece, the slug in thiscase being contracted and useful Improvements in Slugs for Typeand usedas a follower on top of the column Containing Channels, of which thefollowing of types. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation illusis adescription sufficient to enable others trating the use of the slug as atype-line end skilled in the art to which the invention apsupport ortype-preceder in a distributing 1o pertains to make and use the same.apparatus. Fig. 6 is a top View of the receiv" My invention relates tothe slugs which are ing end of the type-containin g channel shown usedintype-containing channels for supportin Fig. 5. ing the types containedtherein, and is espe- It will be seen that the essential feature ofcially adapted for use in connection with the construction consists inproviding the slug r5 portable type-channels used alternatelyin the withmeans for effecting a lateral pressure I type-distributing apparatus andin a setter or against the side walls of the type-eontaining case.channel, and it is obvious that it is immate- The object is to afford aslug that may be rial whether the body of the device itself is usedeither as such in the ordinary way or as made elastic and expansible orwhether a por- 20 a follower to a column of type, and also one in tionof the device is made solid and provided which the frictional contactwith the interior with oneor more expanding sections. A consides of thechannel may be increased or divenient and economical way is to constructminished. Thus when usedto upholdtheforthe body of the slug A of asingle piece of ward end of a column of type distributed into elasticsheet metal, as shown in the drawings.

25 a type-containing channel and forwarded In this case a suitable stripof the metal is therein under the influence of a reciprocatingpermanently bent and set into the required pusher or other similardevice the pressure of shape to form the two leaves 0. a the ends of theslug against the side walls of the channel which tend constantly tospring apart. In ormay be augmented so as to afford a suitable der towiden the bearing-surface upon the floor 30 resistance to the action ofthe forwarding of the channel at the other end, the fold is mechanismwhich would otherwise have a preferably formed into a loop a. One oftendency to throw the slug ahead of the end the free ends as, forinstance, in the draw of the column of types at each stroke were ingsthat of the leaf (L -is bent inward transthe slug loose and free,thereby rendering the versely to form the type-bearing surface a 5 wholecolumn loose and irregular. which is always presented to the flat sideof The invention consists, primarily, in a slug the type at the end ofthe line, formed with one or more elastic resilient sec- A clamp orcontractor B is used in connections which tend constantly to expandagainst tion with the expanding leaves a a preferthe interior wall orwalls of the type-containably pivoted thereto at its lower end near theto ing channel, the degree of expansion and the lower edges of theleaves. It will be seen that go pressure exerted being controlled by anadthe contractor B straddles the upper edges of justable clamp; and,secondarily, the inventhe leaves, and the space between its legs is tionconsists in forming the body of such a of less width than the slug whenexpanded, so slug out of a single piece of elastic sheet metal that wheninclined forward more or less, as

T5 and in hinging the clamp thereto, substanindicated in Fig. 1, it willcompress the free 5 tially as herein shown and described. ends of theleaves a a toward each other, and In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1is thereby lessen or remove the lateral pressan isometrical view of myimproved form of are against the side walls of the containingslugclosed; Fig. 2, a similar view taken from channel.

the opposite side and showing the device ex- Instead of the bifurcatedform of clamp 13 1'00 a contractor, substantially in the manner and forthe purpose described.

2. A slug formed of a single piece of spring metal, combined with acontractor, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

LOUIS K. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE WILLIAM MIATT, D. M. GARDNER.

